8P / Tuttle

[Outbackmanyep]

AAAAAh ok, how many years you been comet-ing??
I have been right into it for 3 going on 4 years now! I have always had an interest but living in western sydney didn't give me much chance of dark skies, until i moved to sunny ol' Walcha.....

I hope others reading this thread are getting enough info out of you and me, fringe-dweller!
You let me know when you come to NSW won't you!

[fringe_dweller]

when i joined ml it was only 6 months or so old, and about 100 - 200 ppl as members thats how long ago I guess,
i used to very occasionaly submit obs to comet-obs and the old defunt? charles morris's site, and ml even more occasionaly - I learned how to do it from jbortle/morris/BAA/ICQ stuff off the net and reading hundreds of ml members posts, bortle suggests the coma estimate method i use as well i think, but I used it before i read that.
i don't remember seeing your obs posted anywhere chris?
i also have an old long neglected website kinda dedicated to southern comets we saw years ago

did you follow WM1? A2? thats how far back the serious uninterupted stretch of bright comet observing/following goes for me WM1 at outburst telescopic view is one of the most amazing things i have ever seen, still is

[Outbackmanyep]

Originally Posted by fringe_dweller

when i joined ml it was only 6 months or so old, and about 100 - 200 ppl as members thats how long ago I guess,
i used to very occasionaly submit obs to comet-obs and the old defunt? charles morris's site, and ml even more occasionaly - I learned how to do it from jbortle/morris/BAA/ICQ stuff off the net and reading hundreds of ml members posts, bortle suggests the coma estimate method i use as well i think, but I used it before i read that.
i don't remember seeing your obs posted anywhere chris?
i also have an old long neglected website kinda dedicated to southern comets we saw years ago

did you follow WM1? A2? thats how far back the serious uninterupted stretch of bright comet observing/following goes for me WM1 at outburst telescopic view is one of the most amazing things i have ever seen, still is

I send all my observations to Con Stoitsis at ASV Comet Section, Con posts his obs on comets-ml, where it goes from Con i have no idea, i assume he passes it on to Seichii Yoshida who does fantastic monitoring of all known comets in Japan, establishing light curves etc.
I should ask Con where the Obs go....lol

Sounds like you been around a long while observing comets, i never saw WM1. I updated a list of comets i have observed, which i enter into my word document, so far im up to 26.......i know Alan Hale is on the downhill run to 500 comets, will i ever get 500? I may need a 16" scope to help me! lol
I hope you have made a list, it would be interesting to see how many you've seen!

Cheers!

[fringe_dweller]

13 or 14? NE comets, (thats the only list that really matters to me ) for me Chris which includes Hyakutake from a dark site a few times at its best in '96

i thought you knew i was into comets lol oh well i give up, only kidding mate

[fringe_dweller]

Wooot! finally, success! thanks to a heads-up from Michael M. on ml, I went out to a dark location to catch another 'two naked eye comet's, in the same sky, at the same time', my 3rd pair , and another ne comet for list lol!

as OBM well knows, before q4 and t7 in 2004, this hadnt been done for a very long time. I guess lack of internet, and no comets are missed now, and co-ordinated stuff like that, and the lack of, back then prevented such a feat being experienced more regularly - not that these were speccy comets, but that doesnt matter.
8P/Tuttle was pretty easy to see with the naked eye once you had located it was with binocs first time round. consistently a very small glow with an obvious cc, certainly in the low 6's magnitude wise.

coupla cruddy souvenir snaps i quickly took of occassion here

18-55 kit lens at f3.5 1600 iso 30 sec singles

one has both comets in fov marked by arrows, the other is just a shot of 17P on its own

[erick (Eric)]

OK, I'm back from travels and I can go looking for it.

Is it still on this path:-

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...7&d=1198011090

Thanks all

[Outbackmanyep]

Sure is Erick!

Only trouble will be that you may find it a little difficult to spot it in moonlight! Bloody moon always ruins a good party!

Good luck!

[erick (Eric)]

Thanks Outbackie

Looks like if I wait until around midnight tonight the Moon will have set and my friend Tuttle should still be at 45 deg elevation. Maybe I'll give it a go? It should be losing magnitude each day now, I believe?

Eric

[Outbackmanyep]

Its gradually fading, my last Obs to ASV was m1= 5.8! Still well within Binocular range and excellent photo op!

Good luck! Hope the clouds don't spoil your fun!
Cheers!

[glenc (Glen)]

Tuttle will be about 5 degrees below NGC1269 on 1/2/08, it will be 2 degrees down to the left of NGC 1549-53 on 15/3 and 1 degree to the left of NGC 1672 on 30/3, all at 9:30 pm DST.

[Outbackmanyep]

Thanks Glen! I hope the late evening high level fog goes away so i can get a widefield crack at it!

Cheers!!!